Call it a successful back-to-the-future gambit: Marquis Hill, the gifted Chicago trumpeter and composer whose career has played out at an accelerando since he won … Read More “Marquis Hill: New Gospel Revisited (Edition)”
A jam-packed weekend opened the 40th edition of the Montreal International Jazz Festival, with inspiring performances by luminaries and rising stars such as pianists Chucho Valdés … Read More “Live Review: 2019 Montreal Jazz Festival, Week 2”
Every so often the current powers that be at Blue Note gather several marquee artists, not all of them necessarily on the label’s roster, put … Read More “Blue Note All-Stars: Our Point of View (Blue Note)”
The story seems implausible, but label head Jake Cohn swears it’s true: In 2007 he hired Wycliffe Gordon, trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and drummer Kendrick Scott … Read More “The Co-Op: The Co-Op (Brown Brothers)”
We Are the Drum would be worth its sticker price just for Lizz Wright sigh-singing the beautiful, melodically off-kilter ballad “This Song in Me.” But … Read More “Kendrick Scott Oracle: We Are the Drum”
Tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III assembles a stellar cast of collaborators here, all of whom he has played with in various constellations: Taylor Eigsti (piano), … Read More “Walter Smith III: Still Casual”
Taking a break from Blanchard and Elling, the drummer’s Oracle is formidable
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